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the name for the city of Roanoke Virginia came from the name for its river which in turn came from the name for the large island below the mouth of this river in albemarle sound called Roanoke island which came from the Indian word Roanoke or roenoke or rawnoke which meant the cockleshells found on that island which the Indians made into money they called wampum

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the word Roanoke came from money

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